Category: Water
Central Elgin residents are being urged to boil their drinking water due to high bacteria levels in the water supply, stated a release Tuesday from the area health unit.
Central Elgin residents are being urged to boil their drinking water due to high bacteria levels in the water supply
In warming Great Lakes region, water, heat can be an unhealthy combination | Bridge Michigan
Overhauling Michigan’s infrastructure to better withstand floods will take money, time and policy change. Only last year did the state department of Environment, Great Lakes
Letters to the Editor: May 25, 2024
Breadcrumb Trail Links Opinion Letters Dam lament Published May 25, 2024 • Last updated 7 hours ago • 5 minute read Mitchell Wright, 17, laughs as
Great Lakes’ water temperatures: Some lakes near record warmth, Lake Superior still frigid – Great Lakes Commission
The warmer than normal air temperatures in April and so far in May are boosting most of the Great Lakes’ water temperatures. While the southern
Community input sought for cleaned-up lakes, shorelines | Great Lakes Echo
It’s taken over 30 years and $80 million to restore Muskegon Lake and a few nearby smaller bodies of water.
Decades of pollution and rapid urbanization created ecological problems so severe that the lake was designated a “Great Lakes Area of Concern” by the U.S. and Canada in 1987.
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Project to protect Hillman Marsh will begin this summer
Breadcrumb Trail Links News Local News Due to construction, migrating sand is no longer being deposited in sufficient quantities onto the narrow band of land
Goderich Laketown Band ready for a summer of performances
Article content With the warming of the weather comes the warming up of the instruments of the Goderich Laketown Band, a community organization that has
Old Lake Michigan shipwreck visible again after burial under sand | Great Lakes Echo
Look fast or you may miss an elusive 170-year-old sunken schooner off the coast of Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin.
The mostly intact shipwreck, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in early April, isn’t always visible, even though it’s in very shallow waters, said Tamara Thomsen, a Wisconsin Historical Society maritime archaeologist.
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Dams may slow harmful algal blooms in urban lakes, expert says | Great Lakes Echo
Like clockwork, Michigan’s Ford Lake and its downstream neighbor, Belleville Lake, turn bright green every summer due to harmful algal blooms.
The lakes, located near Ypsilanti in the southeast part of the state, have struggled for decades with phosphorus pollution that spurs algae growth.
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Cuyahoga comeback: Remediation is working but it’s hard to measure | Great Lakes Echo
Fifty-five years after the Cuyahoga River last caught fire, its health continues to improve.
But determining what prevention and cleanup practices are most effective remains difficult.
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